Pile fabric.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PILE FABRIC.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 19| 1905.

Application filed July l, 1904. Serial No. 214,965.

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Be it known that I, FRANZ KLEUTGEN, a citizen of the German Empireresiding at 59 Weyerthal, Suelz, near Cologne, in the Kingdom of Prussia, f German Empire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pile Fabrics, of which the following is a specification.

In pile fabrics with coarse-thread pile, especially those in which the pile is formed by the insertion of pile-threads into an alreadyprepared ground fabric, the fiXity of the pile in the fabric is usually imperfect, as the threads can easily be drawn out by the hand, and they fall out by themselves during short use of the pile fabric. The present invention obviates these defects, because according toit' the pile-threads are fastened to the ground fabric by sewing or stitching.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows such a fabric in section; Fig. 2, a back view of the same. Fig. 3 shows the same fabric combined with a lining on the back thereof. Fig. 4 shows the invention embodied in a woven pile fabric; and Fig. 5, the fabric shown in Fig. 4, but in section taken longitudinally of sewing or stitching.

Referring to Figs. 1,2, and 3, the idea is shown as being embodied in a pile fabric in which the pile-threads a are fastened in the ground fabric by embroidering with a suitable hollow needle or by any other means. The pile-loops visible on the front side ofthe fabric are arranged in straight rows, and between these rows are made rows of sewing or stitching n with a sewing-machine. These rows of sewing or stitching hold the parts of the pile-threads lying at the back of the ground fabric-that is to say, the part bound into the ground fabric-and sew or stitch it fast to the ground fabric, so that it cannot be drawn out. When the pile-loops are drawn into the ground fabric by means of an embroidering-needle, the latter must have been moved in the direction of the arrow s in Fig. 2. In order to give more support to the whole fabric, a lining c may be applied to the back thereof, as shown in Fig. 3, being secured thereto by the aforesaid sewing or stitching. In this case the sewing or stitching is carried across the part of the pilethreads at the back of the ground fabric, so

that such pile-threads are held between the .backing and the ground fabric and also directly by the stitches.

In Figs. 4 and 5 the invention is shown as embodied in a woven pile fabric, comprising pile-tufts a', passed about the wefts of a skeleton ground fabric. In this case the lining c is used and the stitches l are run transversely of the weft -threads through the ground fabric and its lining, whereby the pile-loops are not immediately fixed by the stitches, but are held fastbetween the ground fabric and the lining. While a lining is preferable in connection with a woven pile fabric, it is not essential, and the stitches may be applied in the manner shown and described in connection with Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the essential feature being the holding of the pile loops or tufts by means of stitches, either directly or indirectly. In Fig. 5, l shows the upper, and m the lower, thread of the sewing-machine. During the sewing or stitching the.

presser-foot of the sewing-machine slides along between the rows of pile-loops on the front side of the pile fabric.

When woven pile fabric, such as Axminster or other similar fabric, is employed, the present invention affords the special advantage that it isnot necessary to provide the ground fabric with a filling or main warp and a heavy underweft, which in the ordinary manufacture are required to give support to these fabrics. The pile fabric may be woven only with a pile-binding warp and a simple pile-binding weft, so that the output of the weaving-loom may be materially increased.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my saidinvention and in what manner the same is to be per formed, I declare that what I claim is- 1. A pile fabric consisting of a ground fabric, rows of pile-threads bound in the ground fabric, and sewingor stitching between the rows of pile-threads.

2. A pile fabric consisting of a ground fab-l ric, rows of pile-loops bound in the ground fabric and sewing or stitching between the rows of pile-threads and across the parts of the said pile-threads which are bound in with the ground fabric.

3. A pile fabric consisting of a ground fabric, rows of pile-loops on the ground fabric, a

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lining on the back of the ground fabric and sewing or stitching between the rows of pilethreads which sewing or stitching connects the lining and ground fabric together.

4. A .pile fabric consisting of a ground fabric, rows of pile-loops on the ground fabric, a

lining on the back of the ground fabric and sewing or stitching between the rows of pilethreads, which sewing or stitching connects the lining, pile-threads and ground fabric to- 1o gether.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two Witnesses.

FRANZ KLEUTGEN.

Witnesses FELIX NEUBAUER, HENRY HASPER. 

